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It is within the state's purview to do such a thing. The trick is in making sure that you do not let the people get that opportunity. The more often that happens with minority matters, the better. Democracy is dangerous for the rights of the few.
I think it's dangerous to remove people's rights to vote on issues or remove their representation and try and circumvent lawful changes to laws because politicians don't want that to happen.
States should be able to do what they want? Should states be able to ban inter-racial marriage? Afterall...states should be able to do what they want, right? Should states be allowed to say that marriage is restricted to those who can prove fertility? Should states be allowed to say that marriage is only between "Christians"?
Or....should States only be able to do what they want when it comes to the limited category of same sex marriage?
If I had a dollar for every time the "inter-racial marriage" straw man gets flung around I could probably donate enough to DP to keep it running for the year.
Can't discriminate based on religion or race, it's lawful to define marriage as one man one woman nor is that unlawful gender discrimination to say a woman cannot be a husband or man a wife.